... And with over 200 points as of just a few seconds ago, (EDIT: and over 300 less than an hour later) it's found its way to the top of the list on the front page. Looks like this might be Sir Robin's fifteen minutes of fame.

On plain old http://conwaylife.com, you mean? I only remember that that exists about once a year. LifeNews-type blog postings are time-consuming, and it seems that no one really enjoys doing them enough to make it a priority.

It's a good idea, though! Might happen soon.

EDIT: It did. Turned out the copy of LifeViewer I had on b3s23life.blogspot.com was way back at Build 188, and didn't even support TRACKLOOP... shows how often I post anything.

Probably ought to get some kind of public news site going reliably again. It's been several years since the LifeNews triumvirate have managed to post anything significant, and it's certainly not because of a lack of significant things to post about.

The best bet might be to be a little more vigilant about mentioning new stuff on Twitter, and then have the conwaylife.com home page echo that. Not sure I'd want every new period 4+ oscillator reported by the Game of Life Bot to pop up on the home page, though, at least not unless someone approves it as being interesting.

But speaking of Twitter, though otherwise profoundly off-topic... is the latest period 8 / mod 4 oscillator actually a new discovery? It doesn't seem to be in the old DRH oscillator collection, jslife, or Sokwe's oscillator supplement.

On plain old http://conwaylife.com, you mean? I only remember that that exists about once a year. LifeNews-type blog postings are time-consuming, and it seems that no one really enjoys doing them enough to make it a priority.

It's a good idea, though! Might happen soon.

Off-topic for this thread, but-- would it be feasible to embed a Twitter widget or so on the conwaylife.com front page, displaying tweets by @conwaylife?

We could, perhaps, also look into whether Template:CurrentNews on the LifeWiki can be RSS-ified, as it were.

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Firstly, if you change velocity ensure you use a different directory, because it tries to restore progress no matter what (and of course different velocities have incompatible partials).

That error suggests you're using Mac OS X, which doesn't have the best support for multiprocessing queues. I'll see if I can amend the script to be more cross-platform.

Finally, the partials can be converted into the usual format by copying them into Golly and running ikpx2golly.py (a Golly Python script). It will prompt you for the velocity; enter the same velocity you used for the search.

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